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List created by Christina B. (christinaholly) on Apr 19, 2011
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Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club, a secret society obsessed with notorious...  more


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The Hidden by Sarah Pinborough
Rachel Wright wakes up in the hospital one morning with no memory of who she is. It takes a while, but once she gets over the shock she decides amnesia isn't all bad. Rachel grasps this opportunity for a fresh start. What does she care if everyone she used to know thinks she'd changed a bit...  more


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Thin by Grace Bowman
Bright, popular, pretty and successful, Grace Bowman had the world at her feet. So what drove her to starve herself nearly to death at the age of 18? And what, more importantly, made her stop? A grippingly honest account of life with anorexia nervosa, "A Shape of My Own" is Grace's hearbreaking,...  more


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Purge: Rehab Diaries by Nicole Johns
Purge is a beautifully crafted memoir that has a Girl, Interrupted feel. In this raw and engaging account of her months in rehab, Nicole Johns documents her stay in a residential treatment facility for eating disorders. Her prose is lucid and vivid, as she seamlessly switches verb tenses and...  more


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Cemetery Stories : Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse Af...
Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them?Enter the world of the dead as Katherine Ramsland talks to...  more


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A Paramedic's Story: Life, Death, and Everything in Between by Steven ""Kelly"" Grays...
Welcome to the life-and-death world of an EMT?sometimes bloody, sometimes even funny, but always compelling. When someone dials 911, Emergency Medical Technician Kelly Grayson is there?to restart the heart that has stopped beating, deal with dangerously high blood alcohol levels, or pull a body...  more


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The Mailman by Bentley Little
Once upon a time, waiting for the mail was filled with warm anticipation. But there's a new mail carrier in town, one who's delivering lethal letters stuffed with icy fear. Now nothing -- not even the most outstanding citizens or the most secret weaknesses -- is safe from the sinister...  more


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Her Name, Titanic by Charles R. Pellegrino
"NOT EVEN GOD HIMSELF COULD SINK THIS SHIP?On the evening of Sunday, April 14, 1912, the awesome ocean liner Titanic-the majestic queen of the White Star fleet-struck an iceberg and quickly vanished into the frigid blackness of the North Atlantic. Seventy-three years later, a dedicated group of...  more


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Death Cruise (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Donald A. Davis
For pretty Ohioan Joan Rogers and her two teenaged daughters, a Florida sunset cruise was a dream come true. And even though all three were desperately afaid of the water, they were so taken with friendly boat owner Oba Chandler that they gladly accepted a ride with him on beautiful Tampa...  more


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The Night Lives on by Walter Lord
The most awesome ocean-going vessel the world had ever seen, the mightly TITANIC struck an iceberg and sank on the night of April 14, 1912, carrying more than 1500 souls--and uncountable secrets--to the icy bottom of the mid-Atlantic. Why did the crew steam full speed ahead into dangerous waters...  more


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No Good Deed by Tom Basinski
One damning lie. One desperate woman. One explosive night of cold-blooded murder. Two days before Christmas in 1998, David Steven's Chrysler LeBaron exploded into flames in the upscale California neighborhood of La Jolia. The "accident" wasn't enough to hide the evidence of homicide: two bullets...  more


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Biting Anorexia: A Firsthand Account of an Internal War by Lucy Howard-Taylor
My name is Lucy. I am in recovery from anorexia nervosa and major depression, each of which almost killed me. So begins this extraordinary account of a teenage girl's descent into the tortured existence of anorexia and her arduous, remarkable recovery. Much of this unflinchingly candid memoir...  more


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Slights by Kaaron Warren
STEVIE IS A KILLER. But she brings her victims back to life to demand of them: "WHAT DO YOU SEE?P" Now she's about to find out for herself... After an accident in which her mother dies, Stevie has a near-death experience, and finds herself in a room full of people --...  more


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Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan & Betty Broderick by Bella Stu...
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays by Sloane Crosley
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor,...  more


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Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul: Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spir...
Most people recall a teacher or two who had a significant impact on their future. In fact, outside the family unit, teachers have more influence on our lives than anyone else. Good teachers help students believe in themselves with a glimpse of what they might become. They go the extra mile to...  more


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Death Instinct by Bentley Little
Cathy was six when the man next door killed his wife and himself. She heard the screams. She saw the blood and the bodies. Now, 20 years later, the house is no longer vacant. Someone new has moved in. Something terrible is happening to the neighbors. And Cathy has a secret of her own...


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Bitter Medicine : Two Doctors, Two Deaths, And A Small Town's Search For Justice (St....
Two DeathsPort Angeles, Washington, is a small town of pretty houses and smiling people, surrounded by acres of pristine wilderness. Everyone thought it was the perfect place to live...until two local doctors made headlines.Two DoctorsOn a chilly January night, Dr. Eugene Turner hastened the...  more


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The Town That Forgot How to Breathe : A Novel by Kenneth J. Harvey
Something strange is happening in the seaside town of Bareneed. Mythical creatures that formerly existed only in mariners' dreams are being pulled from the sea. Perfectly preserved corpses of villagers long ago lost at sea are washing up on the shore. And residents of the town are suddenly...  more


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Second Chances: Inspiring Stories of Dog Adoption (Petfinder.com) by Joan Banks
Every day, Petfinder.com finds thousands of loving families for homeless dogs. Second Chances tells the story of these placements and the courage--both human and canine--behind them. These fifty tail-wagging tales include: The Puppy Mill Dog, in which two women rescue an abused Shih tzu from a...  more


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Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir by Laura M. Flynn
Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura?s father of trying to win her over to the side of Satan, or buying only...  more


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Burned Alive : A Survivor of an "Honor Killing" Speaks Out by Souad
Souad was a 17-year-old woman living in a small village in Jordan when she made the mistake of falling in love--an event that would lead to unspeakable acts of violence and a lifetime of exile from her homeland. Desperate to leave her abusive childhood behind, Souad begins a relationship with a...  more


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The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder by Katharine A...
Jane is an attractive woman in her mid-thirties, tall, thin, and stately. She believes she is breathtakingly ugly. Tormented by what she sees as her huge nose, crooked lip, big jaw, fat buttocks, and tiny breasts, she has not left her house in six years. Though she lives in the same house as her...  more


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Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montro...
This is a hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open. Christine Montross brings an uncommon perspective to the emotional difficulty of the first year of medical school, and her disturbing, often entertaining...  more


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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel...  more


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When Man is the Prey: True Stories of Animals Attacking Humans by Michael Tougias
Since we humans have evolved into the dominant species on this planet, we sometimes fail to recognize--and respect--the ever-present threat posed by the animals we love or fear, hunt or fight to protect. Many of nature's most lethal residents have combative skills that have been honed by...  more


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How We Die : Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying -- of patients, and of his own family -- he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's,...  more


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Secret Girl by Molly Bruce Jacobs
Brucie Jacobs, the family's eldest daughter, newly sober at the age of thirty-eight, comes face-to-face with a family secret -- a younger sister Anne who was diagnosed at birth with hydrocephalus and mental retardation, then institutionalized. Anne has never been home to visit, and Jacobs...  more


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Hot Lights, Cold Steel : Life, Death, and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years...
When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the...  more


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The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin & Peter Straub
The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's BabyWith an Introduction by Peter StraubFor Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the...  more


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Shattered: The True Story of a Mother's Love, a Husband's Betrayal, and a Cold-Bloode...
Hero, Husband, Father . . . Monster? In Creekstone, Texas, a small, quiet suburb of Houston, football was king . . . and David Temple was a prince. A former high school and college gridiron star-turned-coach, he had a fairy-tale marriage to bright, vivacious Belinda Lucas, a teacher at the...  more


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Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
Julia Scheeres was raised as a fundamentalist Christian in the Midwest by a brutally violent father and a negligent mother obsessed with religion. Raped by one adopted brother, Scheeres forms a bond with David, her other brother, who is black, and the two manage to survive--barely--a truly...  more


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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an...  more


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Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity by ...
Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to the tanning salon help lower your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on -- or...  more


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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimm...
Haven Kimmel's memoir She Got Up Off the Couch picks up where her bestselling A Girl Named Zippy left off, and is reeled out in much the same vein. The person who got up off the couch is Zippy's mother, Delonda, who for years sat on the titular sofa, ate, read, and watched TV until she...  more


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Kick Me : Adventures in Adolescence by Paul Feig
Written in side-splitting and often cringe-inducing detail, Paul Feig takes you in a time machine to a world of bombardment by dodge balls, ill-fated prom dates, hellish school bus rides, and other aspects of public school life that will keep you laughing in recognition and occasionally sighing...  more


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Well Enough Alone: A Cultural History of My Hypochondria by Jennifer Traig
The hilarious first-person account of life as a hypochondriac—from the critically acclaimed author of Devil in the Details.Jennifer Traig does not suffer from lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s Disease, or muscular dystrophy. Nor does she have SUDS, the mysterious disorder that claims healthy...  more


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Moloka'i (Moloka'i, Bk 1) by Alan Brennert
Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined...  more


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The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themsel...
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students?whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of...  more


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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christ...
The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. Shocking as it is, this book -- -a crucial source of original research used for the bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners -- gives evidence to suggest the...  more


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A Season of Darkness by Doug Jones & Phyllis Gobbell
When nine-year-old Marcia Trimble was murdered in 1975, her parents believed justice would be served. But it would take more than thirty years before the case finally came to its shocking, unexpected, and long-awaited conclusion.


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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Harriet Jacobs, born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina, recounts her remarkable story. From her sale to an abusive master, to her bid for freedom as the lover of a white man, to her ultimate and harrowing emancipation,...  more


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First Person Plural : My Life as a Multiple by Cameron West
A victim of childhood sexual abuse, now a trained psychologist, chronicles his terrifying experience with multiple personalities later in life, detailing his road to recovery.


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Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self by Lori Gottlieb
When Lori Gottlieb was 11 years old, she did something girls that age often do: She started a diary. And like far too many other 11-year-old girls, she also began starving herself. Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self chronicles her transformation from a bright, healthy kid into a hospital...  more


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Cruel Heart by William Van Meter
The True Story of a Beautiful Co-ed, a Vicious Murder, and the Trial that Tore Apart a Town On the morning of May 4, 2003, a well-loved, hard-working freshman student named Katie Autry was found dead in her dormitory room at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. She had been raped,...  more


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Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories : And Other Disasters by Jean Shepherd
A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed trade paperback edition.Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant--and...  more


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True Ghosts: Haunting Tales From the Vaults of FATE Magazine by Andrew Honigman
From the vaults of FATE Magazine?true stories of encounters with ghosts, phantoms, and haunted places An elderly waitress silently serves breakfast to two friends at an eerily deserted diner?and the next day, the friends discover the diner is out of business and slated for demolition. A phantom...  more


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Escape by Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.  When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a...  more


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Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kat...
PUBLICLY, SHAMELESSLY, UNSHAKABLY FAT AND HAPPY The bad news: There probably isn't a thin person inside you waiting to get out.  But there just might be a happy, confident, awesome fat person in there -- and this book will help you find her. Bloggers Kate Harding and Marianne...  more


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All My Patients Are Under the Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor by Louis J. Camuti & H...
For sixty years he treated thousands of cats and made so many house calls he became known as "Albert Schweitzer of the cat world" In recollections both funny and tender, Dr. Camuti astutely observes his patients and their protectors -- the cat people whose foibles and follies he...  more


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Manic: A Memoir by Terri Cheney
An attractive, highly successful Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, Terri Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder for the better part of her life -- and concealing a pharmacy’s worth of prescription drugs meant to stabilize her moods and make her "normal." In...  more


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Love Her To Death by M. William Phelps
In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of 45-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman and a member of a prominent family, showed no emotion as he learned of her death....  more


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Broken by William Cope Moyers
From rock bottom to recovery -- the son of veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers chronicles his life-shattering battle with addiction and the hard-won fight for recovery William Cope Moyers has come a long, long way. In 1994, he lay on the floor of an Atlanta crack house. His father had put...  more


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Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surg...
It?s 2:47 a.m. when Dr. Nick Trout takes the phone call that starts another hectic day at the Angell Animal Medical Center. Sage, a ten-year old German shepherd, will die without emergency surgery for a serious stomach condition. Over the next twenty-four hours Dr. Trout fights for Sage?s life,...  more


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Come Out Tonight by Richard Laymon
Sherry's getting nervous, When Duane left for the 24-hour Speed-D-Mart, he said he'd be back in ten minutes. But that was twenty minutes ago, and that store isn't someplace you'd generally want to go to at this time of night. Then Sherry hears a noise from up the street. It could have been a car...  more


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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car...  more


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Death in Yellowstone : Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee ...
Intriguing stories of how people have died in Yellowstone warn about the many dangers that exist there and in wild areas in general. The author, Whittlesey, believes that far too many people enter our national parks with "a false sense of security." He then goes on to chronicle the...  more


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The Quiet Room : A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller & Amand...
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered...  more


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They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch
One rainy day in Brooklyn, Jennings Michael Burch's mother, too sick to care for him, left him at an orphanage, saying only, "I'll be right back." She never returned. Shuttled through a series of bleak foster homes and institutions, he never remained in any of them long enough to make a friend....  more


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Superstud : Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin by Paul Feig
Lost in love and don't know much? Paul Feig knew even less...Like any other red-blooded, straight young man, Paul Feig spent much of his teenage years trying to solve the mystery of women. Unlike most red-blooded, straight teenage boys, however, Paul Feig was sadly at a considerable...  more


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Prey by Graham Masterton
There's something in the attic of Fortyfoot House. Something that rustles. Something that scampers and scratches. Something with fur, far more terrifying than a rat. Recently divorced, David Williams takes a job restoring Fortyfoot House, a dilapidated 19th-century orphanage, hoping to...  more


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Ghost: The True Story of One Man's Descent into Madness and Murder by Glenn Puit
John Patrick Addis was a state trooper, crime scene investigator, bush pilot, ex-convict, UFO fanatic, survivalist -- and a pro at manipulating women. His criminal madness stretched from Alaska to Mexico -- leaving countless victims in his wake.


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The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
Their love would never be the same. Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios. But when construction of a beautiful new home begins in the empty lot next door, their easy...  more


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Mentally Incontinent: That Time I Burned Down a Hooters, That Time My Stalker Crashed...
Cyberspace's answer to David Sedaris: raucous recollections from a man with a serious blabber-control problem Joe Peacock is one of those rare people to whom interesting things just sorta happen. For the amusement of his friends, he'd often recount in long e-mails his latest misadventure,...  more


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House Rules: A Memoir (P.S.) by Rachel Sontag
At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal fights; disobedience meant humiliating punishments. When she was twelve, he duct-taped her stereo...  more


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Driven to Kill by Gary C. King
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Bringing Out the Dead (Vintage Contemporaries) by Joe Connelly
Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes from deep within the experience, and the result...  more


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Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon
Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered -- a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood. Three decades earlier, her...  more


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The Forgotten by Tamara Thorne
Tamara Thorne's supernatural thrillers have been hailed as pulse-pounding rides into the dark heart of our deepest fears. Now, the author of Bad Things dives into the terrifying unknown of one man's memory, where a forgotten fear is surfacing?The Past? Will Banning survived a childhood so...  more


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Meg (Meg, Bk 1) by Steve Alten
On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with terror. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor remains haunted years later by what he saw. Written off as a crackpot, he insists that the prehistoric shark known as Carcharodon...  more


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Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia by Stephen Fried
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and...  more


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A Twisted Faith by Gregg Olsen
On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a house went up in flames. In it was the shy, beloved minister's wife Dawn Hacheney. When the fire was extinguished, investigators found only her charred remains. Her husband Nick was visibly...  more


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The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare by Kristina Wandzil...
A child caught in the horror of alcohol and drug addition. A mother helplessly standing by unable to save her. The Lost Years is the real life story of just such a mother and child, each giving their first-hand accounts of the years lost to addiction and despair. Kristina, the second of four...  more


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Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic. by David Nadelberg
Share the shame.In the days before blogs, teenagers recorded their lives with a pen in top-secret notebooks, usually emblazoned with an earnest, underlined plea to parents to keep away. Since 2002, David Nadelberg has tapped that vast wellspring of adolescent anguish in the stage show Mortified,...  more


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Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene
One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke up to find the rest of the world gone. Just . . . gone. Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, plummeting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in -- not light, not people, not even electricity, radio, TV, internet,...  more


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The Weight-Loss Diaries by Courtney Rubin & Courtney Rubin
From Shape magazine's popular "Weight-Loss Diary" columnist comes a hilarious, sometimes heartwrenching look at the daily struggle of dieting In this frank and funny book, Courtney Rubin shares what she learned about dieting--and herself--in more than two years of chronicling her battle to keep...  more


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Scream at the Sky (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Carlton Stowers
An unsolved murder spree that left a town frozen in fear...In rural Texas, just before Christmas in 1984, a young nurse was found raped and murdered in her Wichita Falls home. Within weeks, a second woman was found-her brutalized body dumped in the frozen Texas plains. Over the next seventeen...  more


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Gifts 2: How People with Down Syndrome Enrich the World by Kathryn Lynard Soper
Award-Winning Finalist in the Anthologies/Non-Fiction category of the National Best Books 2009 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News Acceptance, courage, friendship, awareness, and joy--these are the gifts recounted in more than seventy inspirational essays included in Gifts 2. Edited by Kathryn...  more


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Please Excuse My Daughter by Julie Klam
A woman's hilarious, bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance. Julie Klam was raised as the only daughter of a Jewish family in the exclusive WASP stronghold of Bedford, New York....  more


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The Bobbitt Case: You Decide by Peter Kane
Gathers selections from the testimony in the Lorena Bobbitt malicious wounding trial, and discusses the background of the case.


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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join...  more


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Dog People Do It Better: 200 ways our dogs teach us to love, laugh, and loosen up by ...
If you are a dog person, you already know that you have a secret advantage over non-dog owners: that it's possible to become wiser, bolder, and more capable of living in the moment thanks to the behaviors and attitudes of your canine companion. Dog People Do It Better celebrates the best...  more


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Murphy's Boy by Torey Hayden
When Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a table, desperately afraid of everything around him. He had not spoken in eight years. Torey Hayden refused to call any child a hopeless case, but to help Kevin, she might need a miracle. About the Author: Torey...  more


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The Trench (Meg, Bk 2) by Steve Alten
Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth scalpel-sharp. Its power unstoppable as it smashes the steel doors holding it in a Monterey, California aquarium. The captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more. On the other side of the world, in the silent depths of the...  more


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Pure by Rebbecca Ray
A sensational and accomplished novel that made its young author one of the most talked about in Britain last year, Pure is about fourteen--the age when you know everything, except when you don't know anything. It's about first love and the end of innocence in all its passion and absurdity. It's...  more


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Undying Love: The True Story of a Passion That Defied Death (St. Martin's True Crime ...
The power of obsessive love seems to know no bounds-- yet one man took his unrequited passion to a grotesque new level that will shock even the most hardened readers. Undying Love is that story-- read on if you dare...Carl von Cosel was a German immigrant who worked as a technician in a Key West...  more


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Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick
In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped...  more


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The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that...  more


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Dominion by Bentley Little
Dion is the new boy at school, shy and ignored. Something else sets him apart. Something happening inside him. Something frightening invading his dreams. Even scarier is what's going to happen when Dion wakes up. Penelope is the odd girl out at school. There is something unusual in the way...  more


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Killer Kids : Shocking True Stories Of Children Who Murdered Their Parents (St. Marti...
Innocent children turned ruthless murderers...Hate-filled and deeply disturbed...They kill with cold-blooded savagery...Nothing was too good for precious Katy-- sports cars, jewelry, designer clothes. Her father, a successful South Florida businessman, could not resist any of her whims. But when...  more


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Bedbugs by Rick Hautala
Known for the past two decades as "that other horror writer from Maine," Hautala boasts a reputation that rests primarily on more than a dozen novels of suspense and the supernatural set in his home state. The 26 stories in this workmanlike first collection of short fiction draw mostly from the...  more


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The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff
Baird College’s Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of students heading home for Thanksgiving break, and Robin Stone, who won’t be going home, swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited solitude. As a massive storm...  more


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Over My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out by Clau...
Locked inside a brain-injured head looking out at a challenging world is the premise of this extraordinary autobiography. Over My Head is an inspiring story of how one woman comes to terms with the loss of her identity and the courageous steps (and hilarious missteps) she takes while learning to...  more


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Blackbird : A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck
To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to...  more


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Journal of the Dead : A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert by Ja...
I killed and buried my best friend today ... When authorities found Raffi Kodikian -- barely alive -- four days after he and his friend David Coughlin became lost in Rattlesnake Canyon, they made a grim and shocking discovery. Kodikian freely admitted that he had stabbed Coughlin twice in the...  more


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Coma by Robin Cook
Patients undergo minor surgery, but they never wake up. Susan Wheeler, a young medical student, hazards her life to uncover the horrifying explanation.


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I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? by Suzy Becker
Now in paperback, the ingenious illustrated memoir that is widely praised: “Hilarious, hell-raising, and frequently heart-wrenching.” —Booklist “[A] unique tragicomedy of a memoir . . . The author is so likable, even in her darkest hour, that as you applaud her...  more


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Just Another Kid by Torey Hayden
Just Another Kid Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle-three recent arrivals from battletorn Northern Ireland, badly traumatized by the horrors of war; eleven-year-old Dirkie, who only knew of life inside an institution; excitable Mariana, aggressive and...  more


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Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Sarah Nickerson, like any other working mom, is busy trying to have it all. One morning while racing to work and distracted by her cell phone, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a...  more


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The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
I don?t want to get out of bed. I?m so stupid. I did so many things wrong. I don?t know what to do. I?m going to be in so much trouble. What am I going to do? I?m completely screwed. In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it...  more


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The Store by Bentley Little
In a small Arizona town, a man counts his blessings: a loving wife, two teenage daughters, and a job that allows him to work at home. Then "The Store" announces plans to open a local outlet, which will surely finish off the small downtown shops. His concerns grow when "The Store's" builders...  more


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Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi
Following the success of his latest novel, Travis Glasgow and his wife Jodie buy their first house in the seemingly idyllic western Maryland town of Westlake. At first, everything is picture perfect—from the beautiful lake behind the house to the rebirth of the friendship between Travis and his...  more


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To Kill and Kill Again by John Coston
The people of the idyllic town of Missoula, Montana liked baby-faced Wayne Nance. The friendly, familiar native son and furniture delivery man was considered so trustworthy that some of his customers just gave him the keys to their houses to make his deliveries easier. But would you give your...  more


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Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison
The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's thirteen-year experience as a foster parent. For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage...  more


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Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs by Wendy Spero
Raised in Manhattan by her overprotective sex-therapist mother (who wore "nine inches of shoulder pads"), Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in microthrills, the small, strange highs that give her life meaning?from finding a strip tease video of her grandmother to selling knives...  more


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Ghost Girl by Torey Hayden
Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world -- until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have prepared...  more


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32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny: Life Lessons from Teaching by Phillip Done
Phillip Done fixes staplers that won't staple, zippers that won't zip, and pokes pins in the caps of glue bottles that will not pour. He has sung "Happy Birthday" 657 times.A witness to the joys of discovery, Done inspires readers with the everyday adventures and milestones of his 32 third...  more


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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali & Delphine Minoui
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her...  more


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Contagious (Infected, Bk 2) by Scott Sigler
From the acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity's secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights...  more


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Blue Sky July: A Mother's Story of Hope and Healing by Nia Wyn
Set between the summers of 1998 and 2005, Blue Sky July follows the story of Nia Wyn, a mother who battled against impossible odds to heal her son Joe, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy soon after he was born. Told by doctors that he would never walk, talk, see, or even recognize her, Wyn...  more


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The Tiger's Child by Torey Hayden
What ever became of Sheila? When special-education teacher Torey Hayden wrote her first book One Child almost two decades ago, she created an international bestseller. Her intensely moving true story of Sheila, a silent, profoundly disturbed little six-year-old girl touched millions. From...  more


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Why I Wore Lipstick : To My Mastectomy by Geralyn Lucas & Geralyn Lucas
Having recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School and landed her dream job at 20/20, the last thing 27-year-old Geralyn expects to hear is a breast cancer diagnosis. And there is one part of the diagnosis that no one will discuss with her: what it means to be a young girl with cancer in...  more


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Urban Gothic by Brian Keene
After their car breaks down in the seediest part of the city, Kerri and her friends take shelter in an abandoned row house. But it's not abandoned at all. The inhabitants are no longer human--and they don't take kindly to intruders.


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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Three ordinary women are about to take on extraordinary step... Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would...  more


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The Resurrectionist by Wrath James White
Dale has the miraculous ability to heal and raise the recent dead. But he's also insane. When he uses his power to brutally kill the woman next door, night after night, no one will believe her impossible story, so it's up to her to find a way to end the living nightmare.


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Poisoned Vows: A True Story by Clifford L. Linedecker
Jill Coit was a voluptuous, dark-skinned beauty--as sultry and unfathomable as the Louisiana bayou where she was born and raised. But beneath the glamour of the one-time fashion model was a woman of insatiable desire who used her cover-girl looks to prey on eligible, well-meaning men.Married ten...  more


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The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Prize for Best Book, THE SLAP has a brilliantly simple premise that allows it to explore a host of contemporary issues. At a crowded barbecue in the Melbourne suburbs hosted by a Greek-Australian man and his Indian wife, the host's cousin slaps a boy for...  more


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The Walking by Bentley Little
The dead are getting restless... Across the country, they have risen. And they seem to have a mission.... The walking has begun... No one knows why they are walking. No one knows where they are going. And no one can stop them.... They are here. From the acclaimed author of The...  more


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Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion by Amy S. Wilensky
I am crazy. But maybe I am not.  For most of her life, these thoughts plagued Amy Wilensky as her mind lurched and veered in ways she didn't understand and her body did things she couldn't control. While she excelled in school and led an otherwise "normal" life, she...  more


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Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub
Nancy Underhill commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son -- fifteen-year-old Mark -- vanishes. The boy's uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic...  more


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Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe...  more


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The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli
The college winter break is over, and Caleb Prentiss faces yet another semester of higher education. Struggling with alcoholism and frustrated by his irrelevant classes, Cal seeks solace in the arms of his scholastic-conscious girlfriend and in somnambulistic conversation with a mystifying...  more


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The Return by Bentley Little
Springerville is famous for the legend of the Mogollon Monster. Of course nobody really believes it. It's just a good campfire story, something to attract gullible tourists -- until an excavation team unearths the figurine of a screaming woman, the jawbone of a deformed animal, and a...  more


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Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten
Max Parkman—autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive—is perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max's behavior has been getting worse—using drugs and lashing out. But she...  more


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Hot Blood (Hot Blood, Bk 1) by Jeff Gelb (Editor) & Lonn Friend (Editor)
First published in 1989, the first installment of the exciting and original award-winning erotic horror series is available again. This volume features bone-chilling stories by such acclaimed authors as Ramsey Campbell, Graham Masterton, Robert R. McCammon, and F. Paul Wilson. Unrequited...  more


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The Policy by Bentley Little
Unemployed, divorced, and living in a new state, Hunt Jackson would be considered a risk by most insurance companies. Lucky for him, he's found one that will give him a policy. All he has to do is sign on the dotted line-and note a minor provision: they require a pound of flesh for their...  more


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Parched by Heather King
One woman's journey to the bottom of the bottle-and back again. In this moving, emotionally charged, and unflinching look at alcoholism and its effects, lawyer and prominent National Public Radio writer and commentator Heather King describes her twenty-year-long descent into the depths of...  more


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Sins of the Mother by Maria Eftimiades
On October 25. 1994, a hysterical Susan Smith told police a tale that would strike terror in the hearts of mothers everywhere. An unidentified gunman had sped off with her two little boys, leaving her screaming on the side of the road.For more than a week, the people in the tiny town of Union,...  more


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Intern: A Doctor's Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar
Intern is Dr. Sandeep Jauhar’s story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question his every assumption about medical care today. Residency and especially its first year, the internship is legendary for its brutality, and...  more


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Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror (Hot Blood, Bk 2) by Jeff Gelb (Editor) &am...
Continues the series with a collection of new writers as well as some classic authors delving into the depths of kinky creepiness. This is the stuff of nightmares where you are getting naughty one minute and running for your life the next. Creepily arousing and arousingly frightening. Anne Rice...  more


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Deadly After Dark (Hot Blood, Bk 4) by Jeff Gelb (Editor) & Michael Garrett (Edit...
The fourth sizzling collection in the Hot Blood series, here is terror and passion beyond the last taboo in an all-new collection of erotic horror from today's fright masters -- Jack Ketchum, Graham Masterton, Lucy Taylor and more.


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Room by Emma Donoghue
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to...  more


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And I Don't Want to Live This Life : A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder by Deb...
For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager...  more


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Seeds of Fear (Hot Blood Bk, 5) by Jeff Gelb (Editor) & Michael Garrett (Editor)
An anthology of erotic horror includes the stories of a trucker who gets more than he expected from a midnight pickup, a young woman who loves sex to death -- literally, and a porn producer who recruits the wrong star.


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Twisted Branch: A Novel of the Abbadon Inn by Chris Blaine
With a sordid history, the Abbadon Inn sits on a quiet street in the charming Victorian town of Cape May, New Jersey. Abandoned and vacant for years, it's ready for renovation. But as a new generation is about to discover, the Abbadon Inn has never really been empty at all.


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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschw...
A horrifying yet spellbinding account. Although Mengele was a mediocre doctor, he was encouraged in his pursuit of "genetic research" to create a "master Aryan race" with the concentration camp at Auschwitz providing an ample supply of specimens for his unscientific, poorly...  more


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Married with Zombies (Living with the Dead, Bk 1) by Jesse Petersen
Meet Sarah and David. Once upon a time they met and fell in love. But now they're on the verge of divorce and going to couples' counseling. On a routine trip to their counselor, they notice a few odd things -- the lack of cars on the highway, the missing security guard, and the fact...  more


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The Toaster Broke, So We're Getting Married : A Memoir by Pamela Holm
The Toaster Broke So We’re Getting Married is a hilarious and heartwarming look at one woman’s odyssey from divorced single mom with a rebellious streak and a string of soured relationships to blushing bride, shamelessly seduced by the kind of satin-and-lace fantasies that...  more


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Dispatch by Bentley Little
Jason Handford has a real gift for writing letters that get results-from complaints to love letters to editorials. Then he's offered a job to do it for a living. It consumes his time, his mind, and eventually, his soul. Jason really should have stuck with freelance.


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How Did You Get This Number: Essays by Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley, the brilliantly funny "fountain of observations" (Boston Globe), now takes readers from a bear-infested wedding in Alaska to a run-in with clowns in Portugal in a new collection of essays about the messiest and most unexpected dilemmas life has to offer. Show me the...  more


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Eternity by Tamara Thorne
WELCOME TO ETERNITY, A LITTLE BIT OF HELL ON EARTH Eternity, California is the sort of charming spot tourists flock to every summer and leave every fall when the heavy snows render it an isolated ghost town. Tourists and New Agers all talk about the strange energy coming from Eternity's greatest...  more


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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery by Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
With poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man's evolution from naive and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant...  more


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True Ghosts 3: Even More Chilling Tales from the Vaults of FATE Magazine by David God...
Amidst the rustle of silken garments, an old woman in black appears to those near death at a Nevada hospital. A desperate swimmer on the verge of drowning is pulled to safety by a fair-haired young man?whom she later discovers is her long-deceased uncle. And a hooded specter without a face...  more


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Castaways by Brian Keene
They came to the deserted island to compete on a popular reality television show. Each one of them hoped to be the last to leave. Now, they're just hoping to stay alive, because one of them isn't who he seems, and the island isn't as deserted as it appears. The men will be slaughtered. The women...  more


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True Notebooks : A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman
Chronicles the author's first year teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders.


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The Burning by Bentley Little
Angela is a college freshman who has found herself in the center of a growing racial tension on campus; Henry is a park ranger who has nightly visits from two very mysterious (and dangerous) young women; Jolene is a mother starting a new life with her son, but who finds instead a mysterious...  more


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A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer
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The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have by De...
The good news: you won’t stop laughing. The bad news: Every word is true.Profiling fifty of the most disgusting, painful, life-threatening and otherwise icky diseases, this remarkable book is the perfect treat for the closet temperature-taker, speed-dialing doctor stalker, or...  more


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Homeplace by Beth Massie
The isolated ancestral home of a beautiful young artist hides a terrifying secret.


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Living in the Labyrinth : A Personal Journey Through the Maze of Alzheimer's by Diana...
Living In The Labyrinth is the story of  how one woman found the strength and the courage  to cope with a devastating disease that has  afflicted five million Americans. Far from being an  exercise in self-pity or a standard autobiography,  this...  more


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You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman : The Diary of a New Mother by Judith Newman
A brutally honest and hilarious memoir from an over-forty first-time mom. Veteran journalist and Ladies Home Journal columnist, Judith Newman spent seven years and $70,000 on infertility treatments, and finally, at age forty, she became pregnant with twins. You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural...  more


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The Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts by J. Mowbray
Gripping first-hand testimony by survivors, rescuers, and others brings the great maritime disaster into harrowing focus in this 1912 "memorial edition," first published shortly after the tragedy. Eyewitnesses recount heart-breaking tales of parting with loved ones, watching the great ship sink,...  more


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The Vanishing by Bentley Little
A Beverly Hills businessman slaughters his family and leaves behind a video of the massacre and a cryptic message. Afterwards, children everywhere are disappearing or being killed. Social worker Carrie Daniels wants to know why--and God help her when she finds out.


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Blood Crazy by Simon Clark
Saturday was a normal day. People went shopping. To the movies. Everything was just as it should be. But not for long. By Sunday, civilization was in ruins. Adults had become murderously insane. One by one they became infected with a crazed, uncontrollable urge to slaughter the young - even...  more


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Differences in Common: Straight Talk on Mental Retardation, Down Syndrome, and Your L...
A writer's collection of almost fifty essays that span more than 20 years of her experience as the mother of a son with Down syndrome. With poignancy and humor, Trainer explores a wide variety of issues, including family adjustment, public attitudes, inclusion, and independence. While her...  more


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Skin Game : A Memoir by Caroline Kettlewell
Caroline Kettlewell’s autobiography reveals a girl whose feelings of pain and alienation led her to seek relief in physically hurting herself, from age twelve into her twenties. Skin Game employs clear language and candid reflection to grant general readers as well as students an...  more


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I'll Never Have Sex with You Again! : Tales from the Delivery Room by Larry Bleidner ...
FORGET EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT CHILDBIRTH. THIS IS REALITY, WITH BELLY LAUGHS. "I'll Never Have Sex with You Again!" chronicles birthin' babies like nothing ever before. Told by moms, dads, OB/GYNS, labor nurses and the people next door, its stories give new meaning to the phrase...  more


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Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder by Melanie Thernstrom
In May 1995, a photograph and an anonymous note arrived at The Harvard Crimson that said "Keep this picture. There will soon be a very juicy story involving this woman." Soon afterwards, Sinedu Tadesse stabbed to death her roommate, Trang Phuong Ho, and then hung herself. This book recounts...  more


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The Academy by Bentley Little
Here's one good reason for staying home from school... Something strange is happening at Tyler High. The laid-back principal has become unusually strict. The janitors no longer work nights because of what they hear. The students are frightened by what they see. And things are happening on...  more


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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Grave Digger's Handbook, left there...  more


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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Set in a small Alabama train stop town in the 1930s, this gem of a book almost could have been shelved as just another light romantic comedy. Various women's voices tell anecdotes of Whistle Stop, as the chapters jump back and forth through time. We hear from Mrs. Threadgoode, reminiscing...  more


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No Dogs in Heaven? Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian by Robert T. Sharp
For the millions of animal enthusiasts in America, here’s a heartwarming collection of tales by veterinarian Robert Sharp that relate the joys and misadventures of being an animal doctor in small-town U.S.A. With humor and compassion, No Dogs in Heaven? portrays the great and not-so-great...  more


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Please Don't Kill Mommy! (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Fannie Weinstein & ...
On November 4, 1990 Tim Boczkowski phoned 911 in Greensboro, North Carolina to report his wife Elaine lying motionless in the bathtub. In the days that followed the paramedics' failed efforts to revive Elaine, detectives began to suspect that Tim had murdered his wife after a quarrel. But with...  more


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Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs by Cheryl Peck
A gay Erma Bombeck meets A Girl Named Zippy in this delightful debut about the misadventures of a woman of size.Cheryl Peck has stories to tell--about her cats, about her family, and about what it's like to be a gay woman of size living in the heartland. There's the story of the time she hit her...  more


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The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a...  more


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My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure by Shawn Decker
Iwas destined for a life of medical drama from day one," begins this comic memoir with a mission. "I was born in the month of July, and my horoscope sign is a disease (Cancer). The symbol for Cancer? A crab (the sexually transmitted critter). Not only that, my parents named me Shawn Timothy...  more


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Baby Doll by Marilyn Knight
High school student Ned Philbeck wasn't thrilled about moving to Winfield so that he and his mother could take care of his ailing grandmother. But at least he couldn't say life was boring -- not once all the weird things started happening at the old Kearse house across the street. The...  more


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Sleep My Child, Forever by John Coston
This gripping account of Ellen Boehm's cold-blooded murder of her two sons and her attempt on her daughter's life--from the bestselling author of To Kill and Kill Again--includes eight pages of revealing photos.


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Death of a Doctor (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Carlton Smith
Pasadena pediatrician Kevin Paul Anderson was admired and trusted by his wife and patients, and looked up to as a mentor by many of his associates. Handsome, athletic, and established, he was also a magnet for women. Deepti Gupta, a thirty-three-year-old fellow doctor, was the kind of conquest...  more


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Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out. Disease sweeps the...  more


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A Rip in Heaven : A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath by Jeanine Cummins
When my parents packed my brother, sister and me into the family van and drove us to Missouri for Spring Break, we brought our entirely imagined city-hardness with us. The hard truth that we were about to learn was that, in fact, we weren't tough kids at all. Our life in the city had not...  more


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The Night Country : A Novel by Stewart O'Nan
One year following their deaths in a late-night car accident, teenagers Danielle, Marco, and Christopher return, in spirit, to the sleepy New England suburb of Avon. Over the course of the evening, the three will drift into and out of the lives of those who knew and were affected by them. None...  more


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Celia by Ruby Jean Jensen
I'll get you, Celia. You kill me and I'll come back as your worst nightmare. I'll get you and I'll get your kids, too. I'll get you, Celia, I'll get you... No one heard the gunshots.Just as no one ever heard Celia's screams or those of her children for all these yrs.But in the isolation of...  more


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Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy by Lynn Marie Smith
This all started as a choice, my choice, but now I was slave to it.Every time I swallowed a pill I was tricking myself into seeing and feeling what was not there. But I could only trick myself for so long....Lynn Smith never wanted to be an addict. A popular straight-A student from small-town...  more


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Family Blood: The Murder That Shattered an All-American Home by Lyn Riddle
On November 25, 1997 -- two days before Thanksgiving -- Earl and Terry Robertson, both 49, were found brutally slaughtered inside their home in Rock Hill, a college town and flourishing suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. They were family people, churchgoing and law-abiding. Yet someone had...  more


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Born Burning by Thomas Sullivan
It's a chair that has been passed down from generation to generation. But ten-year-old Joey doesn't dare go near it-even though it seems terribly important to Joey's father and uncle. Because the chair is part of a family tradition. A tradition in which Joey must take his place-no matter how...  more


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A Real Boy : A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention, and Recovery by Christina Ad...
Jonah Adams was diagnosed as autistic at two years and eight months. Just a few years later, a doctor refused to believe such a diagnosis could ever have been given to this healthy, happy boy. This is the true story of how Jonah's mother, Christina, seized his limited window of opportunity for...  more


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Gone in the Night: The Dowaliby Family's Encounter with Murder and the Law by David P...
When seven-year-old Jaclyn Dowaliby was murdered near her suburban Chicago home in 1988, her innocent father was convicted and jailed, and his legal team and some committed journalists set out to win David Dowaliby's acquittal, and succeeded.


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Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss-her life-and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help...  more


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Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors by Evan Handler
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Dark Whispers by Chris Blaine
When John and Karen Dalton buy the restored Abbadon Inn in the picturesque town of Cape May, Karen finds letters of the long-dead mobster named Jack Cooney who built the inn and who died in the 1950s. She becomes obsessed with the inn's bloody history. Karen will soon find out that arousing the...  more


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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" -- a tempest that may happen only once in a century -- a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to...  more


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Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse by Janice Hudson
"Trauma Junkie gives us a view over the flight nurse's shoulder from liftoff until the patient is delivered to the hospital and the agonizing minutes in between. These fascinating true stories are impossible to put down." -- James M. Betts, MD, Chief of Department of Surgery and Director of...  more


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The Unwelcome Child by Terese Pampellone
Bundle Of Evil… The old Victorian home stands at the top of a hill overlooking Martha’s Vineyard, nestled in a forest of green pines and a rainbow of wildflowers, just a stone’s throw away from the beach. It was Jan Hostetter’s dream to convert the three-story house into a...  more


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Comment added 6/10/11 by Lisa A. (NeedyBookLover) - :
I have read several from your list . . . I really enjoyed "The Town That Forgot How to Breath" and "Cemetery Stories".